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Tech Lead Manager, AI Data Products

New YorkFull-time$300k–$420k2026-11-03
On-siteNo visa sponsorship

Core

Lead the team building systems to turn complex multimodal inputs (images, video, audio, documents) into reliable, customer-ready data products for frontier AI models.

Role type

Senior IC Tech Lead Manager (multimodal data products)

Builds

Production data products for multimodal inputs (image, video, audio, document)

Domain

AI infrastructure / Multimodal data processing

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Engineering team leadership, backend system design, distributed systems, data-intensive workflows, unstructured data processing, metadata management, versioning, compute-heavy workflow optimization, product strategy, architecture decisions, code review, hiring

Preferred skills

Multimedia infrastructure, computer-vision data, video/audio processing, ML platforms, annotation systems, human-in-the-loop products, platform boundary judgment, zero-to-one product launch

Technologies

Backend frameworks, distributed systems, data processing pipelines, storage systems, compute clusters

Responsibilities

Set technical and product strategy for multimodal data products, design systems for the full lifecycle of multimodal data, create reusable abstractions across modalities, build quality systems with automated evaluation and expert review, ensure traceability of outputs, manage reliability and cost of long-running workflows, write production code and lead design reviews, hire and coach engineers, partner with product and ML teams

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with people leadership